Your grocery receipt probably includes the amount you saved during your shopping trip. This amount might be based on coupons, store loyalty discounts or sales. Either way, Daily Finance has a creative way to use this amount to "trick" yourself into saving.

"My mother-in-law and father-in-law have a great system for their grocery loyalty cards. They take the amount listed on the bottom of their receipt that they saved with their loyalty card, and they put that in the savings account or piggy bank."

This is a simple, creative way to save some extra cash. But I like this method because it makes your grocery savings tangible. And because of that, you might be inspired to find more ways to saveon groceries. Nothing wrong with that.